Questions tagged [bug]
Use this tag to indicate you've found erroneous or unexpected behaviour on this or other sites that needs to be fixed.
147 questions
8 votes
0 answers
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To the programmer getting unbalanced parentheses errors
... your lost right curly brace it's here on Unix & Linux SE. Please collect it or it will be thrown away by our janitorial staff at the end of the day.
1 vote
0 answers
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Error when submitting a tag wiki edit initially
When attempting to submit a tag wiki edit suggestion, an error occurs that forces me to wait another 30 seconds before retrying the edit submission. After waiting, submitting the tag wiki edit works, ...
1 vote
1 answer
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Confusing output when saving tag edit
Let's have a look at this: I'm rather confused, because: If i don't have tag edit privileges, why can I start editing the tag at all? If the edit is placed in a queue, why does it say "An error ...
2 votes
1 answer
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Review queues : redundantly duplicating… at least… the automated comment
On Feb 2, within the late answers review queue, I had recommended deletion of some answer. This incidentally triggering some automated comment from my user. How comes that yesterday (Feb 7) I get the ...
2 votes
1 answer
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Bogus rendering when <br/> or <br> tags are preceded and followed by newlines
Seen at: https://unix.stackexchange.com/revisions/34012/3 with Firefox on Ubuntu 20.04, <br/> text `code` **bold** more text Renders as: Instead of: The generated HTML is: <br/> text `...
1 vote
0 answers
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Bug report : Invalid "You've earned a bonus of 100 because we trust you on other sites of the network" notification
Having, a long time ago, registered under Stack Overflow using some_email_address, Then, under some site of the SE network using the same identity, SE site under which I earned some credit. I then ...
3 votes
0 answers
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Voting button contrast
I'm finding it pretty hard to see at a glance, whether I've voted here or not. On other sites, it's not so bad, but the dark blue theme color for https://unix.stackexchange.com is especially close to ...
19 votes
1 answer
161 views
Low contrast between voted-on and not-voted-on buttons
I think the usability on the voting buttons has gone down since the new round buttons were put in place. I went to upvote a question today and was told I'd already done so. Looking again it's clear ...
22 votes
1 answer
590 views
can't publish a question "This looks like spam."
I'm trying to publish this question but I can't as the body is marked with "This looks like spam.". Any idea how I can fix my post? Thanks
3 votes
1 answer
128 views
Unintuitive behavior of "Suggested Edits" review queue
Today, I found an edit suggestion in my review queue where the question that was to be edited had already been deleted. It looks like a moot point to keep such items in the review queue. Is this a bug,...
5 votes
1 answer
112 views
Serial voting reversed (-10) but only one upvote made (+10)?
I'm hardly active on UL SE at all so I was very surprised to see a "serial voting reversed" message removing 10 reputation from my score yesterday. I am even more baffled because it appears ...
1 vote
0 answers
74 views
Reputation changes points message not showing or disappearing swiftly
Since a couple of days I noted that reputation changes points message is not showing or disappearing swiftly (I'm not sure yet wich is it). I can only see that the number is higher or lower, without ...
15 votes
0 answers
268 views
TAB not preserved in code blocks
Mangling code or tab separated data: This is tab delimited data Rendering of code blocks break tabs. This is bad for example for code that require tabs (Example). for posts where users paste ...
4 votes
0 answers
63 views
Site fonts on Linux
After logging on this morning, I noticed that my fonts (using Brave) had all switched back to whatever SE was using before. Is it just me or was the Ubuntu font removed?
6 votes
1 answer
51 views
Bug in review badge award algorithm?
It seems that two days ago, I was awarded the "Steward" badge for the "First Post" and "Close Votes" queues, although I received them in May and July of last year already....